Small Plane Rear-Ends Car in Napa County; 3 Injured - NewYorkInjuryNews (press release)
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Napa County, CA — A small plane rear-ended a car on Highway 29, after the plane made an emergency landing near Napa County on Sunday afternoon, August 28, 2011. The collision took place on Highway 29 near Airport Boulevard around 12:35 p.m., reported the San Jose Mercury News.
According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Beechcraft A36 Bonanza lost power and crash landed on the highway, where it rear-ended a 2007 Infiniti.
Small Plane Rear-Ends Car in Napa County; 3 Injured - NewYorkInjuryNews (press release)
Bike Crash Wiped Details; GPS Data Filled Them In - New York Times
WOODSIDE, Calif. — After racing and biking back roads on the San Francisco Peninsula for almost half a century without serious incident, on July 3 I crashed while riding downhill at more than 30 miles an hour. I knocked myself out, broke my nose and was left with lots of road rash and stitches on my face, as well as a deep gash above my knee that went all the way to the patella.
But when the paramedics picked me up and sent me to the hospital, I found that the worst thing I had sustained was a hole in my memory, lasting about 20 minutes. I had been riding by myself, and I had no idea what led me to crash.
I might have hit a pothole and been thrown off my bike. Worse, I might have passed out before crashing, a possible sign of a serious underlying condition.
What I do remember is this: Riding back from the Pacific Ocean after a long climb on a hot day, I started downhill. Some time later, I recall coming to, staring up at redwoods.
Bike Crash Wiped Details; GPS Data Filled Them In - New York Times
Santa Clara County DA says evidence proves Maurice Nasmeh murdered Jeanine … - San Jose Mercury News
For more than 10 years, police and prosecutors have been trying to unravel one of Silicon Valley's biggest murder mysteries -- the disappearance of Jeanine Harms.
On Wednesday, they held an elaborate news conference to name her killer. But he won't be going on trial. Maurice Nasmeh -- the prime suspect, all along -- is already dead.
The news surprised no one connected to the decadelong investigation, including Harms' grief-stricken friends and family. Nasmeh, killed this year by Harms' brother during a chance encounter, had been free since 2007 after questions arose about the lab expert who linked threads found in the back of Nasmeh's SUV to a Persian carpet that disappeared from Harms' apartment.
Rosen also highlighted what he said was Nasmeh's history of violence against women and that Nasmeh took all of the beer cans, empty and full, with him when he left Harms' duplex. That proved, he said, that Nasmeh "was determined to leave nothing behind that could incriminate him." "The only logical and rational conclusion to be drawn from all the evidence is that Nasmeh murdered Ms. Sanchez-Harms," Rosen said.
Santa Clara County DA says evidence proves Maurice Nasmeh murdered Jeanine ... - San Jose Mercury News
Internal Affairs: - San Jose Mercury News
Former San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales was eating dinner with his wife Thursday when his cellphone started blowing up with calls, texts and emails. Everyone wanted to know why he was running for state Senate next year.
IA was one of the curious calling Gonzales, who wrapped up his mayoral gig in 2006 after he was indicted -- and later cleared -- on corruption charges over a garbage contract and had been disgraced over an affair with a young aide (who is now his wife).
Gonzales said Medeiros was an old campaign volunteer of his during his mayor days but is a little "out there" and created the page unbeknown to Gonzales.
Gonzales said Medeiros was an old campaign volunteer of his during his mayor days but is a little "out there" and created the page unbeknown to Gonzales. "It's a classic case of how things become firestorms these days with all the social networking going on," said Gonzales, who said he'd likely message Medeiros to take down the page.
Internal Affairs: - San Jose Mercury News
Court document: 2 suspects confessed to setting Trace school fire - San Jose Mercury News
Two teens charged with deliberately setting a fire that destroyed Trace Elementary School last summer confessed to the crime while being interviewed by San Jose police, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
Months after the massive blaze, Kliefert Guiang and Lazarus Reavallez, each now 17, separately detailed to police how they lit fires on separate sides of the Trace school in the early-morning hours of July 5, 2010.
Reavallez used a "blowtorch-type lighter" to ignite a garbage can, according to the boy's confessions, while Guiang torched cardboard that investigators say eventually engulfed the school in flames.
Although the boys are juveniles, the newspaper is naming them because the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office charged both of them as adults.
Court document: 2 suspects confessed to setting Trace school fire - San Jose Mercury News
Los Gatos mom convicted of misdemeanor for sexual relationship with teen - Examiner.com
A 48-year-old Los Gatos mother of four was acquitted today of two felony counts of unlawful sexual contact with a minor, but convicted on one count of molesting or annoying a child, a misdemeanor.
In addition to having intercourse with the teen, Cole’s relationship with the troubled boy also included more than 5,000 text messages and 800 phone calls between the two. The relationship ended when the boy’s parents learned of it and sent their son to a camp for troubled teens.
Cole was offered a plea deal last week in which she would have been sentenced to six months of home confinement and required to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, but the offer was refused.
Mercury News reports that testimony regarding the accident was not allowed into evidence because it was not applicable to the case and could evoke juror sympathy.
Los Gatos mom convicted of misdemeanor for sexual relationship with teen - Examiner.com
Trucker convicted of vehicular manslaughter in runaway truck accident - Fleet Owner
Jurors in Pasadena, CA, convicted trucker driver Marcos Costa of vehicular manslaughter after failing to reach a verdict on second-degree murder charges brought against him as a result of a runaway truck accident. Costa lost the brakes on his rig on a windy, mountainous road and careened through an intersection in La Canada-Flintridge, killing two people in April 2009.
The jury in the case told the judge on Thursday they were unable to reach a verdict on the murder charges after deliberating for a week, according to KTLA News . Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Darrell Mavis sent the jury back to deliberate on lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter. The jury came back with a guilty verdict on those charges Friday. Costa also was convicted of three counts of reckless driving causing an injury.
The 46-year old trucker was hauling cars over the San Gabriel Mountains when his brakes failed on the steep Angeles Crest Highway. The rig crashed into a car, killing Palmdale resident Angel Posca and his daughter Angelina. The truck then hit four other vehicles, finally crashing into a storefront, leaving 12 others injured.
Costa and his co-driver Jose Soares testified in the trial that they drove onto Angeles Forest Highway following the GPS-suggested route that took them through the Angeles National Forest, but it did not point out they would traverse winding, mountainous roads, both men said.
Trucker convicted of vehicular manslaughter in runaway truck accident - Fleet Owner
Murder Trial: Jury Hears Testimony of Previous Crest Accidents - Patch.com
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Darrell Mavis ruled for the defendant Monday in allowing evidence of numerous truck accidents near - and in one case the exact - same spot as Marcos Costa's lethal wreck.
Truck driver Marcos Costa is charged with two counts of murder, felony reckless driving and vehicular manslaughter in the Apr. 1, 2009 big-rig wreck.
The jurors who will decide whether Marcos Costa is guilty of murder in his 2009 wreck that killed two people heard testimony Monday about 10 previous accidents on that same stretch of road - one that included a big rig that narrowly missed hitting anyone.
Overuling the objections of Deputy District Attorney Carolina Lugo, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Darrell Mavis allowed defense expert Alan Coulter to testify about multiple injury-involved accidents on Angeles Crest Highway. Those accidents, that date some 50 years, left victims dead and wounded - yet those drivers were not charged with murder.
Murder Trial: Jury Hears Testimony of Previous Crest Accidents - Patch.com
Chilean miners seek damages from government - CNN International
Officials have said mine regulations weren't to blame (CNN) -- Virtually all of the miners who were trapped for 69 days in a Chilean mine last year have filed a lawsuit against the government, seeking more than half a million dollars each in damages.
The lawsuit, the miners say, is not about the money, but about setting a precedent so that such an accident does not happen again. On August 5 of last year, a cave-in at the San Jose mine trapped the 33 for months in an ordeal that ended with their heroic rescue.
Reygadas, in an interview with CNN Chile, said that he was not even aware that their attorney was filing a lawsuit against the government. He thought it was a lawsuit against the owner of the mine.
The lawsuit is not a slap at the government of President Sebastian Pinera, whose team coordinated the rescue, Reygadas said. Rather it was at the state in general for allowing the conditions that led to the accident, he said.
Chilean miners seek damages from government - CNN International
Second patient dies after car crashes through San Jose nursing home - San Jose Mercury News
A second elderly resident died on Sunday, a day after a 90-year-old woman plowed her car through a San Jose nursing home's recreation room when she apparently mistook the gas pedal for the brake.
The deadly crash -- which also killed an 88-year-old resident of the Amberwood Gardens Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and injured five other people -- quickly renewed a debate over elderly drivers, a painful issue that will only grow as the nation's baby boom generation enters its senior years.
Police will not reveal the identity of the driver because she has not been charged and the accident is still under investigation. Therefore, it's unclear if she had a history of driving infractions. But one Department of Motor Vehicles official said the woman most likely will have her license revoked and would have to retake driving tests if she wanted to get it back.
Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sinunu-Towery said Sunday night that her office will work with the San Jose Police accident reconstruction team to thoroughly investigate the crash.
Second patient dies after car crashes through San Jose nursing home - San Jose Mercury News